Milan Architecture

Milan Architecture News

We've selected what we feel are the key examples of Milan Buildings, Lombardy, Italy. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed Milan buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Lombardy. The focus is on contemporary buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

Lombardy Architecture Designs - latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

Via Broletto 9/11
Design: Beretta Associati

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Via Broletto 9/11 Milan - 7 May 2013
The building is composed by two different buildings on Via Broletto divided in origin and then unified for functional reasons. The works consist in a radical reorganization and reassessment of the internal spaces in order to create the headquarter of an international lawyer office.

CityLife Skyscraper, Milan, Italy
Design: Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Architects

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CityLife Skyscraper - 26 Apr 2013
The project for the Endless Tower contributes to the redevelopment of the former trade fair area in Milan. The building is part of the program for the redevelopment of the historic trade fair area in Milan, the object of an international competition in 2003 by Fondazione Fiera and won by CityLife with architectural projects by Arata Isozaki, Daniel Libeskind, and Zaha Hadid.

[re]vive Architecture Competition, Milan, Italy

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[re]vive Architecture Competition
'a contemporary factory of culture' : [im]possible living launch open call addressed to makers, creative people and startups to assign affordable exhibition spaces inside an unused civic library during Milan Design Week 2013.

La Serenissima Office, Turati
Park Associati

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La Serenissima Milan - 7 Jan 2013
When this building was built, it was considered to be modern and technologically advanced, even experimental. Today however, many of its undeniably attractive aspects have become outdated with regards to current standards of building construction. For this reason the new owner, aware of its quality and evocative presence, decided to bring in architects to redesign the complex.

Bocconi University Campus Buildings
SANAA architects

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SANAA architects - 3 Dec 2012
Playful proposals unveiled for the Bocconi University Campus. The design is typical for SANAA with organic forms and a central green space. Key elements of the design are a 17,500 sqm public park wwith surrounding dormitories, School of Management, buildings for Bocconi's Master and Executive programmes and a recreation centre.

Arcade Store Milan
Design: Antonino Cardillo

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Arcade Store Milan - 15 Nov 2012
The store appears to the visitor almost as an enchanted palace set in a rationalist building. As in the royal stable of Meknes or the mosque of Cordoba, a dense succession of parallel arches define a perspective. The arch, primary icon of architecture, archetype of construction and protection, and symbol of Italy throughout history, in its airy, slender variant, codified by 14th century Italian painting and often cited by De Chirico, rediscovers in this work its double syntactic value of connection and separation of parts.

Building in Azzate, Varese, north west of Milan
Park Associati

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Building in Azzate - 9 May 2012
The site for this scheme lies in an open landscape that is visible from a local countryside environmental route and has a strong relationship with a hilly wooded area behind it. The new Azzate housing development on via Piave has been carefully studied in terms of form and volume to create the best possible views, using geometries and perspective axes that enable it to be successfully integrated into its green surroundings.

U27 Office building, Milanofiori Nord (Assago)
Park Associati

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U27 Office building - 8 May 2012
The architectural design by Park Associati is based on an analytical approach to the articulated system of access to the Milanofiori Nord area, the pedestrian walkways and roads, climatic factors relating to the context and the goal of properly integrating the building into the overall masterplan.

B5 Building for RCS Mediagroup
Barreca & La Varra, Architects

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B5 Building for RCS Mediagroup Milan - 24 Feb 2012
In the north-eastern outskirts of Milan, as part of the restructuring of the former industrial core that houses the RCS Mediagroup, the new office building B5 designed by Barreca & La Varra studio has just been completed. The building is an integral part of a master plan intended for research and intellectual work and contributes to the incredible transformation which the production areas at the edge of the city have undergone over the past few years.

Milan Architecture News - 2011

Park Associati

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Park Associati

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OBR Open Building Research

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Arata Isozaki & Andrea Maffei Associates

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Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP

photograph courtesy of Andres Otero & Saverio Lombardi Vallauri

Milan Architecture Contest

Milan Buildings

Ian Ritchie Architects

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John Pawson, architect

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Dominique Perrault

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Studio Nicoletti Associati

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Erick van Egeraat

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Park Associati

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Foster + Partners

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Massimiliano e Doriana Fuksas Architects

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AMO

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Matteo Thun & Partners

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Grafton Architects

photograph : Federico Brunetti

Buratti Battiston Architects

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Park Associati - Zucchi & Partners

photo : Leo Torri